JVM hangs beyond recovery

[Stas Oskin]

Hi.

I actually already got the stack trace via GDB, here is the link again:
http://pastie.org/996680

The main problem with it that it's not clear which native library the code
is stuck in.
Can any of the service agents get me more info, like for example the loaded
native libraries?

Thanks.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Paul Hohensee <paul.hohensee at oracle.com>wrote:

> The first thing we suspect when we see a hang or memory stomp (your
> hang might be caused by a memory stomp) is native code running as part
> of the application.  I'd try running your app under a debugger or attach
> to it with a debugger or the serviceability agent to get stack traces.  See
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/groups/serviceability/svcjdk.html
>
> for serviceability tools in general.
>
> The switches you mention are
>
> -XX:-ReduceInitialCardMarks
>
> which works around a gc bug.  In some cases there will be a slight gc
> performance loss
> using this switch.  It may fix your problem
>
> -XX:-UseBiasedLocking
>
> will disable the fastest path uncontended locking algorithm.  You may or
> may not see
> a performance hit by doing so.  Biased locking has been pretty reliable for
> quite awhile,
> so it's not too likely that turning it off will fix your problem.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 6/8/10 2:35 PM, Stas Oskin wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I encountered the hang in latest jdk1.6.0_20 version.
>>
>> I tried to get the threads dump, but both jstack and kill -3 didn't
>> produce any results.
>> Below is the GDB dump:
>> http://pastie.org/996680
>>
>> Earlier in this thread I receive that possible cause is the dlsym function
>> in libdl library. I googled a bit for similar issues, and found only the
>> following potentially similar case:
>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ07615
>>
>> I also received advices to:
>>
>> * ReduceInitialCardMarks
>> or/and
>> * UseBiasedLocking
>>
>> Which one of them may solve the issue, and what the possible results would
>> be?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
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